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Title | Creator | Date Made Visible | None
Street scene, new Ulysses, Grant County, Kansas
This is a photograph of a Saturday afternoon street scene in "new" Ulysses, Grant County, Kansas. All trading was done every Saturday and people stayed in town all day long. On February 6, 1909, the town was moved from its original location to escape payment of $35,000 in bonds plus $10,000 interest for waterworks and other improvements. The indebtedness was greater than the assessed valuation of the property.
previewCommercial Street, Emporia, Kansas
View of Commercial Street with a banner "Emporia Is The Place" hanging between two poles. Visible are businesses buildings, a trolley, carriages, and people walking on the street and sidewalks.
previewRoad construction, Beloit, Kansas
This photograph shows men building roads on a Good Roads Day, Beloit, Kansas.
previewRock quarry, Russell County, Kansas
Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
View of stone slabs piled in a quarry in Russell County, Kansas. Also visible are men standing near or seated upon quarry equipment, men seated in two open convertible automobiles, and men seated on horse-drawn wagons loaded with quarried stone.
previewHauling dirt for the railroad bed
Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
This is a view, presumed to have been taken in Haskell County, Kansas, of rail workers using horse- and mule-drawn wagons to haul dirt for a railroad bed.
previewPeople on a flatbed railroad car
Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
This is a view, presumed to have been taken in Haskell County, Kansas, of a large group of people (men and women) on a flat railroad car being pulled by a locomotive. Also visible are a horse-drawn wagon and its driver.
previewMen in horse-drawn carriages, wagons, and equipment
Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
This is a view of men in horse-drawn carriages and wagons to the left and front of unidentified equipment being drawn by eight horses in a dirt field. It is believed the photograph was taken in Haskell County, Kansas.
previewGiant steam tractor pulling four one-way disks to turn wheat stubble
Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
View of a giant steam tractor pulling four one-way discs to turn up wheat stubble in a field. Also visible are a horse-drawn wagon and three men.
previewMoving S.E. Cave's office building from Santa Fe to Sublette, Kansas
Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
This is a view of workers using wagons and mules to move S. E. Cave's office building from Santa Fe, Kansas, to the new Haskell County seat in Sublette, Kansas. The James S. Patrick Real Estate office, left, was later moved to Satanta, Kansas. In the background, behind the S. E. Cave building, is the original Haskell County Courthouse building. Santa Fe pioneers fought hard for a railroad for Haskell County, but when it came in 1913, it missed Santa Fe, the original county seat, by seven miles. In 1920, the county seat was moved to Sublette, Kansas, which had prospered by being on the Santa Fe railroad line, and Santa Fe faded away into a ghost town.
previewParade float in Ashland, Kansas
Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
View of a horse-drawn parade float with a sunflower theme advertising W. T. Carson, Ashland, Kansas. The First Ward School is visible in the background.
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